Weeks after the first-ever WitcherCon was held online, Netflix has now shared a teaser trailer of its new anime movie feature The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf. The movie has been animated by Studio MIR and stars a younger version of Vesemir - the father figure and mentor of Geralt.
According to The Witcher showrunner, Lauren Schmidt Hissrich, the animation shows what Kaer Morhen and a larger brotherhood would have once looked like ahead of the live-action version of The Witcher season two. And here's a more official description from Netflix:
"The world of The Witcher expands in this anime origin story: Before Geralt, there was his mentor Vesemir — a swashbuckling young witcher who escaped a life of poverty to slay monsters for coin. But when a strange new monster begins terrorizing a politically-fraught kingdom, Vesemir finds himself on a frightening adventure that forces him to confront the demons of his past."
This new animated movie, as noted in the trailer, will air exclusively on Netflix on 23rd August this year. The animation will be followed by season two of the live-action show on 17th December. You can see a full trailer of this in our previous post.
CD Projekt Red also confirmed at WitcherCon that The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition would be receiving some free DLC inspired by The Witcher series on Netflix. This DLC will be made available to every version of the game (including the Switch) and more details will be shared soon.
What do you think of the first look at The Witcher animated movie? Will you be watching? Leave a comment down below.
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Yooo this might actually be sick though. Nefix tends to really stick their animated stuff
It would almost have to be better than their abysmal live action adaptation. I mean, it can only go up from there, right?
...Right?
Imagine Netflix gaming getting the next Witcher and Castlevania games as an exclusive.
@Friendly Don't care about Witcher but I'd be soo disappointed if the next Castlevania game was Netflix exclusive. I hope their game service only uses the IPs Netflix owns.
Is this in the game's continuity, or the TV show's continuity?
@Friendly No one in hell Netflix would get TW as an exclusive considering how many sales CDPR would lose doing that.
@Thannus More likely the TV show one.
More stories to tell, keep 'm coming. Looking forward to it, only a month away.
I mean it looks alright I guess. I don’t really see anything that would make anyone turn off, it’s just not very interesting.
Vesemir in the bathtub, haha.
A pre-purge setting is a bold choose. Either they will be true to the setting and the world will look nothing like the one fans are used to, or they will just ditch the source material.
My guess is the second, seeing their was flat out threats to burn the production studio down when the first trailer showed Geralt only carried one sword.
Ya know, like he totally does in everything but the video game, because silver is expensive and fragile so he leaves his silver sword with Roach unless he knows he's fighting monsters.
I guess not a lot of US fans speak Polish.
Starring a young vesemir..
I didn't know vesemir was an ancestor of Adam Jensen
Never been interested in Witcher stuff, but this looks pretty good. I'll give it a look.
I'm more interested in this than the live action series, tbh.
@Thannus
It's the book's continuity.
Just like the TV show AND the game.
Other then the odd choice to change Dandelion in the TV show and a few changes they made in the game to make it fun (like not having to run back to roach to get your silver sword every time you wanted to fight a monster) what differences are you talking about?
The TV show is a pretty accurate break down of the events leading to Witcher 3, and if you look at the season 2 tailor there are shot for shot recreations of some parts of that game (which were already 1:1 recreations of the book).
Go to 1:28 in the second trailer and pause it as Ciri is looking around outside. Now go play the Witcher 3 at the first point you play as Ciri. It's identical.
@HeadPirate thank goodness one person who knows the Witcher instead of just throwing out random opinions. Though there's still a long way to cover between s1 of the TV show and the Witcher 3 game. Just hope they still cram season of storms in somehow.
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